xii, 303 pages ; 24 cm

What is good fiction? Twenty-five editors of fiction magazines suggest answers by contributing stories which they published, and they explain why they published them. The general consensus is that there is no consensus, but a writer's perseverance helps

A Story Needs Two Stories / Ronald Spatz -- The Woman Who Slept with a Tortoise / Cory Wade -- Literary Energy / Robert S. Fogarty -- In the Sparrow Hills / Emile Capouya -- Choosing "Sheets" / Micki Reaman and Beverly McFarland -- Sheets / Beth Bosworth --First Evidences: The Work of Youn Writers in Little Magazines / Amber Vogel -- The Disillusioned / Lloyd Shaw -- A Fading Light / Robert Morgan -- Fiction in Disguise(s) / Sonia Raiziss -- Final Exam: History of Art 321 / Elizabeth McBride -- Getting into Fiction / Mark Mirsky and Allan Aycock -- The Red-Headed Man / Mary Clark -- Finding the Real Thing / Stanley W. Lindberg -- Manly Conclusions / Mary Hood -- All We Ever Wanted to Say / Peter Stitt -- Father Pat Springer / Deborah Larsen -- A Story like the World: The Selection of Louis Gallo's "Bodies Set in Motion" / Jim Clark -- Bodies Set in Motion / Louis gallo -- The Resurrected "Mother" / Cara Diaconoff -- Mother / W.B. Pescosolido

Breaking the Rules / David Hamilton -- Seven Blackberries / Norman Sage -- Meaningful Fiction and Women's Lives / Marianne Abel -- Good Shabbos / Pamela Walker -- Our Lady of No Consolation: On Eileen Pollack's "A Sense of Aesthetics" / Devon Jersild -- A Sense of Aesthetics / Eileen Pollack -- Choosing Fiction for Publication / Robert Stewart -- What Does God Care About Your Dignity, Victor Travesti? / Thomas E. Kennedy -- Fiction and Politics / Robley Wilson -- The Translator / Norman Lavers -- "Trinity Doughnuts" and the Openness of Life / Hannah Wilson -- Trinity Doughnuts / Amber Dorko -- Immediate Needs and Possibilities: Publishing a Story in Prairie Schooner / Hilda Raz -- Tango / Ellen Hunnicutt -- The Economy of Revelation / George Core -- Privacy / Martha L. Hall -- Just Visiting / Dabney Stuart -- Speaking to the Fish / Lisa Sandlin -- Look for Everything in the Sweeping and It Is There / Elizabeth Mills -- The Way That I Sweep / Jill Koenigsdorf -- For "The Whole Story" / George Garrett -- Dad is Here / Hilary Masters -- Getting It Right / Wendy Lesser -- Picture Perfect / Leigh Anne Jones -- The Making of the Pulitzer Prize / Staige D. Blackford -- Fairy Tale / Robert Olen Butler

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